The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-29

and at Waits River in the afternoon.
East Randolph.
A PETITION to the selectmen to lay out a
new road between Charles Waldo's and E.
A. Fits has been extensively circulated
The selectmen meet to-day "wednesday to
look the ground over. - Ned Harvey
fell and broke an arm last Friday. -
Miss A. Taft of Burlington is visiting her
brother, c. w. Taft Esq. 80 Frank
Sparks has finished work for j. c. Hunt
ington and is at work for ID. j. Camp. Will
Hyde takes Mr.. Sparks place at Mr.. Hunt
ington $. ~ The school in the Grow dis
trict, Kate Gillett, teacher, enjoyed ride to
Williamstown Springs Saturday.
North Randolph.
School closed on Friday last with picnic
held in the yard of DIR. M. Ryder. The Gay
lord district of Brookfeld united with this
school, and the exercises by the pupils of
both passed off very pleasantly. The Brook
field cornet band furnished music and
every one pronounced it /" a good time"
80 Quite number of our people at
tended the concert given at East Brookfield,
last Friday evening, by the Brookfeld cor
net band - The road-machine, under
charge of Mr.. Gillett, is now at work in this
part of the town. - The Cone Brothers,
who lost their dam in the recent hard rain,
have nearly, if not quite, completed their
new one. - Frank S. Parks, who hired
out to work for J. Huntington for the sea-
son, left there last week and VIII Hyde has
taken his place. 60 Last Friday night
Ned Harvey, while at the barn, slippedIand
fell, breaking his wrist.
West Randolph.
THE Randolph baseball club went to
Montpelier Saturday and got beaten, six to
four 1t was expected the return game
would be held here to-day wednesday,,
but the Montpelier pitcher was unable to
inf of thn ait Gnft
day evening the Christian society ice-cream
and strawberry party was adjourned to
Monday night. - Rev. S. A. Parker
preached in Mechanics hall Sunday after
noon. - Miss Lucy Moulton has been
visiting in Burlington. - A. ID. Lamson
and family have arrived in town for the
summer. - Mrs. Carrie Williams (nee
Briggs of Ware, Mass, is in town. -
Miss Ulla Griswold and mother of st. Paul,
Mimi, are in town. - Harvey Spauld-
ing of Washington, ID. c., is stopping at
Hon. James Hutchinson's. - Lee Fos-
ter of Chelsea has been stopping with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Foster.
Tunbridge.
ABOUT two inches of rain fell one day
last week. - There appears to be good
prospect for better prices for wool. 80
The public reading last week was not all
that was expected. - The school in dis
trict No. Is closes this week. Live
stock of all kinds now brings good prices.
There is large demand for good horses.
- Potatoes and corn are growi ng very
rapidly now. - Henry Hayward was at
Northtield during the commencement exer-
cises last week. His son Fred spends
his vacation at home. - Andrew Wills
and William Luce were at Burlington last
week at the reunion of the Second Vermont.
- Mrs. Lillian Dixie Dimck is visiting
here. - John Folsom of Federal Point,
Florida, is at James i. Farnham's. -
| Warren Bright is very ill. - James
Brown of West Lebanon, n H., a former
resident, is visiting at William p. Browns.
60 DR.. Charles Flanders and family of
| Pittsford have been visiting friends in this
| place.
Williamstown.
The color of some newly painted houses
| in our village is not to be taken as having
| grown out of the - golden anticipations of
the future, railroad paint though it may be.
| - Owing, perhaps, to the absence OF
Ex-Governor Smith from home nothing fur
Their was done last week concerning rail
road matters. There are plentiful predic-
tons that the road will not be built this
year after all. But we fail as yet to find
! ground for them. - John S. Story, Gus
toms agent, and the head of the local
freight department of the Central Vermont
railroad at st. Adams, was the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. George A. Answorth last week,
| Perhaps few Nermonters have any idea OF
the increase in the last twenty years of the
amount of duties paid at this port on i'm
ported goods. 1t is said that seven or eight
times the number of men then required al
this customs agency are now needed to at
| tend to the work. - Williamstownans
elsewhere write of hot weather, while here
we have been having only comfortable
temperatures thus far this season. Last
week was a rainy one. Corn is small, but
farmers all know what may yet come of it
| hAr ha =
barns to be filed with plenty. - A resi-
dent of the Pacific coast, a New Highlander
by birth. recently told us she nowhere
else found anything oquite equal Vermont
in June. What we hear from strangers
who visit our own town at this season
would lead one to judge that nature has
beautifully blessed us in the way. of fine
mountain scenery. May our eyes be opeI
to the wealth of it all, - Mrs. Kimbal
p. Martin has been quite sick of late AT the
house of her son in Barre. She has suffered
greatly. The trouble seems to be a diSeaS,
of the stomach. Anna NJ. Benedic
has had position offered her in a graded
school in Nebraska. She has not yet de
cded concerning it. - We hear the
public performances of Anna NJ, daughte
of the late Ezra Benedict, and Ella, daugh
ter of Albert Il. Martin in connection will
their graduation from Goddard Seminary
last week. well spoken of. Miss Bene
dict took a prize for speaking -
Joseph Gregory moves to his newly-pur
chased house this week. He proposes t.
build barn on his place at once. 60
Sias Stone was lately called to Ogdensburg
y. V, by the illness of sister. - Charlie
C. Barnes has returned from a canvassin!
tour and is TO remain AT home for a time
His son Frank, a pupil in ID. l.. Moody
Boys School at Northteld, Mass, since
January last will stay through Mr.. Moody
special term of Bible study Dune 30 to July
l2) and then come home. - Rev. X. ID
Miller was called to Dummerston last Fri
day by the death of his mother who wa
ninety six years of age. - George Adam
is in drugstore in Bellows Falls, with tn
possibility of purchasing ii hereafter. -
Conductor Frank w. Flint has been a
home for a few days past. - Mr.. ant
Mrs. j. Birney Seaver brought the body o
their little boy from Washington for buria
here last week. He had been an invali'
for some time. - Nettie Gale graduate,
in music at Goddard Seminary last week
She is DESTROYS of prosecuting her piano
study in Boston next season. - Mr.. AM
Mrs. Charles Crane and son of Dexter
Iowa, arrived here last week. They cam
via South Hadley, Mass, to attend the con
mencement and semi-centennial exercise
of Mount HollSoke Female Seminary, MI
Cranes two daughters being among tn
graduates this year They will remain here
abouts two or three weeks. - Joel Bias
has Just taken a few days vacation from hi
work in the insane asylum at BrattleborC
He returned this week. - Frank Wake
and sister, Miss Alice, came home last Sa
urday from SaXton's River, where they hav
, been attending school some months. -